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Hot ticket: UK’s first sauna theatre draws swimwear-clad audiences
By Robyn Vinter

The 80-seat venue at Edinburgh fringe combines sauna rituals with theatre, music, storytelling … and sweat

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/27/sauna-theatre-edinburgh-fringe-art

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Hot ticket: UK’s first sauna theatre draws swimwear-clad audiences https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/27/sauna-theatre-edinburgh-fringe-art #EdinburghFestival2026 #EdinburghFestival #FringeTheatre #Theatre #Stage #Culture #Edinburgh #Scotland #UkNews

Yes, you can feel my calves! The endurance extremists pounding treadmills and pumping pedals at the fringe
By Kate Wyver

How do you keep audiences gripped while cycling 27km per show? From the Australian recreating a Tour de France win to a ‘toxically positive’ spin queen, we meet the acts bringing Olympian fitness to Edinburgh

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/18/endurance-extremists-edinburgh-fringe

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‘We risked our lives for $250’: how pole dancing exploded out of strip clubs and became serious art https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/18/pole-dancing-strip-clubs-serious-art-edinburgh-fringe #Dance #EdinburghFestival2026 #Cabaret #Stage #FringeTheatre #Culture #EdinburghFestival #Theatre

‘We risked our lives for £250’: how pole dancing exploded out of strip clubs and became serious art
By Lyndsey Winship

With abs like Olympians and skin like hide, pole dancers are besieging the Edinburgh fringe. We meet four high-flying, physics-defying acts tackling everything from New York’s underbelly to neurodiversity

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/18/pole-dancing-strip-clubs-serious-art-edinburgh-fringe

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Magic tricks, Palestinian circus, and a ‘kinky Hamlet’: the must-see shows at 2026’s Edinburgh fringe
By Kate Wyver

From big-name standups to dance performances and experimental plays, here are our picks for an excellent festival

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/09/edinburgh-festival-fringe-must-see-shows-lizzy-hoo-shedinburgh-palestinian-circus

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‘Not afraid of controversy’: Edinburgh fringe rejects calls to cancel Amanda Knox comedy
By Caroline Davies and Nadia Khomami

Festival organisers defend show after criticism from sister of Meredith Kercher, Knox’s murdered former flatmate

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/07/edinburgh-fringe-rejects-calls-cancel-amanda-knox-comedy-cartwheel

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‘Not afraid of controversy’: Edinburgh fringe rejects calls to cancel Amanda Knox comedy https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/07/edinburgh-fringe-rejects-calls-cancel-amanda-knox-comedy-cartwheel #EdinburghFestival2026 #AmandaKnox #MeredithKercher #EdinburghFestival #FringeTheatre #Culture #Festivals #Stage #Theatre #UkNews #Scotland #Edinburgh

Maggots by Tony Craze Award winner Farah Najib is currently at the Bush Theatre. Through three actors, it powerfully explores the unseen human costs of societal neglect and it stayed with me longer than I expected.

I wrote a longer review here if anyone’s interested: https://redbuslondinium.uk/2026/02/02/maggots-bush-theatre/

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